With the smart features of today's photo editors, an old black and white photo can be colorized and made to look like it was taken a few days ago, but the process can be quite complicated. You would have to spend a considerable amount of time to find the right skin tones, drawing masks and so on. With Color Magic, black and white pictures can be colorized in just a few minutes. The software comes with its own libraries of color tones, which can be applied on a photo, without too much effort. You only need to use a few basic drawing tools and the program will give your photos a whole new look.

Color Magic is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu. Although it is free to try for a limited period of time, the trial version is fully functional, so you can enjoy all its features, without any restrictions, until it expires. The software can be installed in a few moments and you can run it without sacrificing too many resources or installing additional tools.

Unlike other advanced photo editors, Color Magic comes with a user friendly interface. It doesn't present too many controls, but you can still find everything you need to colorize a picture. All you have to do is select the colors you need and draw a series of masks, using pens, pencils or other drawing tools. When you are done, you only need to click a button and the program will colorize the photo for you.

The software comes with a vast range of pre-selected colors, which are neatly categorized in various libraries, on the right side of the interface. You can find numerous color tones for different skin types, eyes, hair, sky, grass, leaves, paper and many other materials or body parts. The colors can be displayed beneath their categories or on a floating tool pane. You can also export individual libraries, hide them and perform other actions.

While a color is selected, it is sufficient to draw a few lines over a certain tone in the picture, instead of covering entire areas. For example, if you wish to colorize a black and white portrait, you must draw with a skin tone color over the face, a hair color over the subject's hair and so on. What's more, Color Magic is not limited to colorizing black and white photos. You can also re-colorize your pictures, using gradients and other elements. Even if you experiment with the program's controls for the first time, the results will definitely satisfy you.

Pros: You may colorize or re-colorize photos with only a few mouse strokes. The software provides huge libraries of color tones for mostly any materials. Color Magic comes with an intuitive user interface, which makes any task easy to perform.

Cons: There are no obvious drawbacks to mention.

With Color Magic's smart and efficient functionality, black and white photos can be made to look like modern digital photos in just a few minutes, without any kind of difficulties.